Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Tower at Eastington Manor House
Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade I
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 May 1970
- Community
- Angle
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68204, -5.03773
- Cadw reference
- 6594
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 0.75km NW of Rhoscrowther Church and close to Texaco Oil Refinery.
History
Medieval tower house of C14 to early C15 date. C15 house belonged to Perrot family. William Meares of Eastington (d1768) is commemorated in the church and there is said to have been a large house of the Meare family adjoining the Tower. This house was occupied by the Leach family in later C18 but mostly demolished by 1868, of which the present house may be the outbuildings.
Exterior
Tower house: Rubble stone, embattled, with vaulted ground floor and first-floor hall reached by added W side outside stairs. A narrower, possibly slightly later, rear wing has vaulted room on each floor and an embattled turret which crowns the stair in the re-entrant NW angle, leading from first floor to the wall walk behind the battlements. S front has corbelled embattled parapet, one first-floor later window and ground-floor (later) broad opening. Shallow angle buttresses. C20 lightweight roofs, and some repairs to stonework, otherwise unrestored. Marks of a lost SW gabled building, possibly indicating an earlier hall range. The original entry to the tower was from the W where a pointed arched doorway survives between the gable and the outside stairs. The stairs may have been originally in timber with an upper porch for which sockets remain. One blocked narrow lancet to first floor left and one blocked N end 2-light trefoil-headed opening part-blocked by rear wing.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Pe 263
Nearby in the register
- Eastington Farmhouse including range of outbuilding to SEDomesticunder 1 mi
- Eastington Manor HouseManorunder 1 mi
- Shaft and Base of Churchyard Cross to N of Parish ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St DecumanusReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.